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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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  • The next few months in the run-up to Brexit will bring upheaval for debt capital markets and syndicate teams at London’s investment banks, as they work out which roles will have to be done from the European Union and which staff to move. But the pressure will not cease on March 29, as national regulators have considerable scope to compel banks to relocate jobs. Jon Hay reports.
  • The €400m CLO deal, managed by Barings (UK) Limited, is set to price on Friday with spread talk on lower rated tranches indicative of a widening in CLO liability costs potentially pinching equity returns. Meanwhile, Magnetar Capital’s First Citizen Finance is marketing its second auto ABS deal backed by Irish loans.
  • Belgium’s ADB Safegate has raised €59m in the leveraged loan market through a bolt-on transaction, with the airport services provider set for its acquisition of the UK’s Ultra Electronics Airport Systems.
  • The Co-operative Group pulled out of a new bond issue and took the rare step of cancelling a tender offer this week, with bankers pinning the blame on the UK’s Brexit brouhaha.
  • Denmark’s TDC is seeking to reprice its euro-denominated term loan ‘B’, as the telecoms company continues to slash at its debt costs and size in the wake of selling Norwegian cable firm Get.
  • Between sleeping and waking, there is a middle phase: you realise it’s time to get up, but can’t quite bear to admit you need to get out of bed. London’s debt capital markets teams are in that zone. Brexit’s alarm has sounded, but few are eager to haul themselves into the cold air of Frankfurt or Paris.
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